Improve Workbench previewer

Project title

Improve Workbench previewer

Mentors

• @sonny - Workbench maintainer

Project length

Long ~350 hours

Description

Workbench grew from a simple GTK XML previewer to a multi-language code sandbox. Some of the early technical decisions do not make sense anymore, and we can improve Workbench as well as extend the ecosystem by reworking some of the internals.

1. Add an out-of-process previewer for JavaScript, similar to Python
2. Remove the inline previewer for JavaScript
3. Stop listening on stdout for console
4. Write a previewer as an introspectable library
5. Replace the previewers with the unified library

If time permits, we will investigate using the previewer for a GNOME Builder extension.

https://github.com/workbenchdev/Workbench

Requirements

• JavaScript
• familiarity with C
• GObject / GTK / ...
• experience working with non trivial codebase/projects
• Good communication skills
• Using Git and contributing via PRs/MRs

Communication

Chat https://matrix.to/#/#workbench:gnome.org And calls occasionally